2 CNE Features

This section provides an overview of the features that are newly introduced or enhanced in 23.4.x.

Release 23.4.6

There are no new features or feature enhancements in this release.

Release 23.4.4

There are no new features or feature enhancements in this release.

Release 23.4.1

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Cloud Native Environment 23.4.1 has been updated with the following features or feature enhancements:
  • Upgrade Support from 23.3.x and 23.4.0: CNE 23.4.0 was released as an installation-only version. To overcome this limitation, CNE 23.4.1 is developed to support upgrade from 23.3.x and 23.4.0. While upgrading from 23.3.x, CNE uplifts the version of the following components:
    • Kubernetes control plane is uplifted to 1.27.x
    • Oracle Operating System (OS) on all CNE nodes and Load Balancer Virtual Machines (LBVMs) are uplifted to Oracle Linux 9

Release 23.4.0

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Cloud Native Environment 23.4.0 has been updated with the following features or feature enhancements:
  • Oracle Linux Version Uplift: In this release, Oracle Linux is uplifted from version 8 to version 9.2. As part of this uplift, all the hosts provisioned in CNE are installed with Oracle Linux 9.2 operating system. This includes CNE cluster nodes, LoadBalancer, and Bastion Hosts. Container images that are built as part of CNE development bastion-controller and lb-controller are also built using Oracle Linux 9.2 base image. Third-party container images used in CNE including Oracle OpenSearch and Oracle OpenSearch Dashboard container images are not part of this uplift.

    Note:

    Oracle Linux version uplift has no impact on NF container image versions. NFs can continue to use the same version of image, as the changes made in Oracle Linux are backward compatible with the NF container image versions.
  • New Versions of Common Services: The following common services are upgraded in this release:
    • Helm - 3.12.3
    • Kubernetes - 1.27.5
    • containerd - 1.7.5
    • Calico - 3.25.2
    • MetalLB - 0.13.11
    • Prometheus - 2.44.0
    • Grafana - 9.5.3
    • Jaeger - 1.45.0
    • Istio - 1.18.2
    • Kyverno - 1.9.0
    • cert-manager - 1.12.4
    • Oracle OpenSearch 2.3.0
    • Oracle OpenSearch Dashboard 2.3.0
    • Fluentd - opensearch 1.16.2
    • Velero 1.12.0
    To get the complete list of third-party services and their versions, refer to the dependencies_23.4.0.tgz file provided as part of the software delivery package.

    Note:

    CNE constitutes a number of third-party services. For information about these third-party services, refer to the documents of the respective third-party services.
  • Upgrade Consideration: CNE 23.4.0 is an installation only release and doesn't support upgrade from 23.3.x.